The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.

Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.

Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.

Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.

Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.

If companies tell us more, insider trading will be worth less.